A POETIC AND SEDUCTIVE 'PERFECT MOMENT'

From: The Boston Globe | Date: July 31, 1990| Author: Christine Temin, Globe Staff | Copyright information

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE: THE PERFECT MOMENT

At: the Institute of Contemporary Art,

tomorrow through October 4. What, I kept asking myself as I walked through the ICA galleries yesterday, is all the fuss about? How has a lyrical and sometimes lightweight show of photographs, by an artist who was gifted, but no Michelangelo, turned into a yearlong national battle over freedom of expression?

The photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe are not obscene. They are p...

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